2. Applebee's is serving a $375-per-person feast on New Year's Eve. Casual-dining (and frequent joke punchline) Applebee's is upping the ante for NYE in NYC. The chain's Time Square location boasts "a night to remember" at the handsome price of $375 per-person. That's a high price to pay for a buffet, but there's also an open bar, a house DJ and party favors. Pass the whiskey-flavored steak sauce, please.

4. New web suffixes set to enter market. The times they are a' changin. The Internet is poised to enter the .anything future by the end of January. That means the everpresent .com will be something you tell your grandkids about one day. In addition to domains ending in .tattoo or .fly, there will be non-English words and characters.

5. What is your animal soulmate? Look, it's the end of the year. And there are just so many lists. But in the midst of all this reflecting and projecting, sometimes you simply need to sit down, take a breath and figure out what your spirit animal is. I got the Sunda Colugo, which is a flying lemur. It's so right that it's kinda blowing my mind.